JeffLeh

Update: So far so good! I re downloaded X-Plane through steam and added the copied files; Aircraft, plug-ins and Scenery back in and not one error! Did not even have to pull out my licenses for anything. Thanks again for all your responses. I will never do that again.....

After all that I have done... adding lots and lots of add-ons and plug ins... I have NO problem re-activating that stuff. I have access to all my licenses and if all goes well, that will be the LEAST of my worries. Thanks again for all your help.

What I did was save all of those files in full. (and more just in case.) I dragged them to my desktop and I am downloading a new steam download of X-Plane. I assume I can then just drag and drop these folders right back into the new download and should be okay... Maybe? Your thoughts? Thanks again for all your input.

No you have been a great help thank you! When you say back up... Can I just drag those folders to my desktop and then reinstall through steam and then put those files back into the new x-plane folders and overwrite? Will that work? If I do a back up now, it will back up the demo mode if I am correct.

I lost my cloud file when I was updating to HD clouds and something went wrong. I went to X-Planes site and it said you can run an updater if files went missing. I did that and it did re-load all the files but now a screen comes up and it says you can only use Demo mode or add a product key. I don't ever remember getting a product key through steam. I never delete emails and I found my conformation number but it wont work. I am just lost. I have hundreds of hours of add ons that I don't want to reload because with so many...I dont remember them all.

Hello everyone, I lost my X-Plane cloud files so went into X-Plane updater and updated just the files that were lost and they did but I ran into another issue.... I rebooted X-Plane and now I am in "Demo" mode and need a license key. I purchased my X-Plane through Steam and tried going back into the updater to re-update and it still puts me in Demo mode. All my files are still in my computer but will only run in demo mode. When I run X-Plane, I still have all my add-ons but it flashes up if I have disk "1" add it now or go to X-Plane to download the full version. I download through Steam so I don't have a disk. I also looked in my files and went to delete the demo mode, its not even there to delete. I searched my steam account and there is not product key. As far as I remember and have researched, no product or registration was needed. Just my conformation of the order. Any suggestions on who to contact or has anyone else had this issue? Steam has an international number or X-Plane to contact. I do not want to re-download X-plane again...I have 2 years worth of add-ons and many many hrs adding them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sundog Yeah I can't figure out what happened. A few weeks ago the log.txt file said Skymaxx caused the crash. Got past it after redownloading Skymaxx (2x's) and then yesterday when it crashed would not say why the application crashed but it would always be at the metars.exe file or something of that nature at the very last line. After about 5 tries, I let the system idle for about 20 minutes and then I went to switch real world weather to "always" and this time it did not crash and has been fine ever since. I would never fly without Skymaxx and that's why I put up a post because I saw just recently someone else had an issue and thought maybe I was missing an update. Again kudos to all your hard work. Real weather and Skymaxx are the two MOST have addons and I will always be a customer and user of your software.

Oh and to answer your question I have not changed planes or scenery. Just updated Navigraph files but that should not have caused an error should it?

Not out of VRAM. it shows 777.47 and I have 2g VRAM. I am just baffled. I have redownload skymaxx and realweather thinking its missing something and still crashes. I have never had i problem before this so I just can't figure it out. It just started occurring and it will fly for about 15 minutes on automatic but will then crash. I use NOAA weather so that why I put it on always setting. All NOAA files are up to date also so that has been checked.

I have to disagree. For some reason over the past week, skymaxx 3.1.2 has been the last item in my log.txt file showing skymaxx has caused xplane to crash. I now also have reloaded skymaxx and real weather and every time I go into switch from loading real weather from automatic to always setting...it crashes within seconds. I have not added any addons at all and I am very upset that skymaxx / real weather keeps crashing. I believe the product is amazing because it really helps tremendously with fps. If anyone can explain why I am having these issues all of a sudden, please let me know. Side note to all. BOTH Skymaxx and Real weather are AWESOME products, just over the past week there have been some bugg issues and I don't know why.